32 meg chip is 65$
64 meg chip is 105$
This is 168 pin, 70ns Ram.
The prices from MyMacDealer were 99 for 32megs, and 154 for 64 megs. Needless to say, I'm pretty happy.
Jesse Kline wrote:
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 19:52, nathan wainwright wrote:So I managed to fandanlge a couple of free powermacs. 7200/90 and a 7200/75, anyone know where I can get some 168 pin 70ns ram for these puppies (need to have them in pairs, would like to get 32/64 meg chips).Try My Mac Dealer on McLeod and 11th Ave. I'm pretty sure that's where I got RAM for an old Mac in the past (http://www.mymacdealer.com/).Also, does anyone know what version linux these would run, and of course can I just buy a new SCSI drive for them? (they only have like 500meg harddrives in them).There are many Linux distros for PPC hardware. There are some issues with some older PPC Macs so you should look into your specific model. I have an old Performa 5200CD and it had issues (just my luck). With that system the best distro. is MKLinux (http://www.mklinux.org/). This was Apples Linux distro. It actually runs a Linux server on top of a BSD Mach Kernel. The last time I used it, it was based on an old version of RedHat (6.2 I think) and was highly out of date, I know there has been at least one update since then, but I doubt that was anything more than bug and security fixes. I was also able to load Debian PPC (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/) on that machine, but I couldn't get the X server to run. Other PPC distros include Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/), Mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppc.php3), SuSE (http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/ppc/index.html), and Yellow Dog (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/) as well as some smaller distros (http://penguinppc.org/projects/other_distros.shtml). If you need any help installing Linux on these machines, bring them to the next installfest. If I can make it, I would love to help you out. Good luck, Jesse
